Week 2 Matchup Ceremony;

[omnivoracious]

❤ Week 2 Matchup Ceremony

[ It's Time.

The Overseer will call everyone outside, to the area. She stands at the podium behind a screen bearing two handprints, while the guys can sit in the seats and the ladies + Diamond will be directed to stand on the platform-- and Cyrus and Douki-chan continue to be seated together.

Behind her and off to the side, there are eight beams of light. ]

Hello, everyone. Choices for our third week have been made. When a couple has been announced, please come forward and place your hands on the screen. You will be locked in.

Once all couples have locked in, the lights will go out. For every couple that is a Perfect Match, a beam of light will appear. To win this game, you will need all eight beams lit. If no new beams have been added per week, you will encounter a blackout and one of you will be chosen at random to lose your wish.

Due to the unfortunate departure of Dohalim, Kuchiha and Vivy, our matchmakers have changed some of the Perfect Matches and also discovered a trio of three. I will inform one of the three of this development next week, to assist them.

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Comments

[aldaft]

I'm inclined to believe the same. Rather, I find myself agreeing with your predications as to who the trio may be.

[dankgod]

You think so, huh? I mean, it does make logical sense...

[aldaft]

Do you feel differently?

[dankgod]

Mm, nah. Or, more like... I definitely don't know who else it would be. Basically everyone I was considering is in there, so it lines up. I thought Zagreus was logically my match the first week.

[ That doesn't feel like the whole answer to Cyrus's question. Kasque fidgets with her hair for a moment as she considers. ]

...But it's like... I was just thinking about the logic, then, not about what it actually meant to be a match with someone. Then I started thinking about it... And I still haven't figured it out. So it's weird for it to suddenly be so decisive.

[aldaft]

I daresay the answer to that varies for every person.

[Kasque, shrewd and perceptive as she is, probably already knows this.]

However, I don't think it's necessary to arrive at it beforehand. The act of thinking about what it means to be a match means you've begun to grow your mind to a possibility you hadn't considered before; that you feel, as you say, weird about the looming certainty of your potential match—or matches—is a natural byproduct of that process. But a relationship evolves and changes with the people in it, and is shaped thus by their idiosyncrasies. To wit, that decisive result may very well be the path toward the enlightenment you seek.

[dankgod]

Or it may well be a path to things decisively blowing up 'cause I was just deluding myself til this point anyway.

[ a sigh ]

What about you guys? You never worried you were pushing things too hard and fast?

[aldaft]

[He shakes his head, both to Kasque's remark and the question.]

Never. While the rapidity of our match doesn't escape me, I believe we've been progressing at a pace that suits us best.

If anything, I worried that I was being too obtuse. Fortunately, Aoko is a most patient teacher. If I'm wrong about something, she corrects me. And if there's something she wants to know, I tell her. In doing so, we've successfully navigated the difficulties that have not been absent in our relationship.

[dankgod]

Hmmmm... I don't know if I'd say that "navigating the difficulties" is what I'm worried about. It's more like... the step of getting from "hot stranger" to "relationship" to start with.

[aldaft]

In my experience, the steps are the same. A candid conversation helps to grasp and mold the nature of the connection we share with others. If this is the source of your worries, I would suggest talking more to the individuals in question next week.

[dankgod]

It's not like I haven't been talking to them already... we can't exactly get a grip on the "nature of our connection" if we're both just like "yeah, no clue."

[ SIGHS HEAVILY. ]

I don't know what else I'm expecting, though.

[aldaft]

Have you discussed other things besides matches and connections? About yourselves, for example.

[dankgod]

Mmmmmm...

[ Talk? About herself? ]

A little bit.

[ More than not at all! An accomplishment! ]

[aldaft]

[Truly!]

Would you be opposed to doing it a little bit more? I'm certain there are many here who would be interested in knowing you better—myself included.

[dankgod]

[ a small sigh ]

...I'm chill with it, I guess. But what do you want to know?

[aldaft]

[His smile widens.]

Why, anything at all. Is there something you'd like to share?

[dankgod]

Not particularly.

[ sorry Cyrus ]